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How come the midwest is not in the outflows chart? I thought there was a lot of agriculture there?
by pkaye 7y ago
How come the midwest is not in the outflows chart? I thought there was a lot of agriculture there?
- dajohnson89 7y agoalso why isn't the central valley of California featured? pretty sure they produce more than los angeles county.
- caz1234 7y agoMy guess is that things grown in California route through those places for export.The counties surrounding Fresno all have massive amounts of agriculture, but do their "business" at the hub (Fresno).
- snerbles 7y agoFresno, Tulare (home of the World Ag Expo), Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Merced, and Kern counties are all on the top food outflows list and in the Central Valley of California. EDIT - for a total outflow of 53.9 billion kilograms of food. Of course, this includes any flows between these counties.
- fotbr 7y agoA lot of the midwest (or the great plains) is devoted to feed corn and corn for ethanol, wheat, and soybeans. It's not california where you'll find fields of lettuce, for example. With that said, there's no shortage of small farms growing most anything that can be grown in the area, but they tend to not be exporting anything beyond the local farmers market.
- cabaalis 7y ago> However, our estimates are for 2012, an extreme drought year in the Cornbelt. So, in another year, the network may look different. It’s possible that counties within the Cornbelt would show up as more critical in non-drought years. This is something that we hope to dig into in future work.
- drjasonharrison 7y agoHave a look at Riverview LLP, one acre of land to grow food for one dairy cow each year. Plus crop rotation. Multiply by 15,000 cows in central Minnesota. https://www.riverviewllp.com/crop-production.html https://www.riverviewllp.com/crop-production.html